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| |  | | Fidel Castro | | | context : | Cuba  | | judgement place : | Spain | | status : | Dismissal - lack of jurisdiction | | particulars : | Complaint in Belgium (2001) and Spain (2005) dismissed on account of Castro’s sovereign immunity | | position : | Head of State |
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| | | | Fidel Castro (Fidel Alejandro Castro Rúz) was born in Mayari, Cuba, on 13 August 1926. He was Cuba’s head of government from 1959 -2008, and the country’s president from 1976-2008.
According to the ‘Fundación para los Derechos Humanos en Cuba’ (FDHC) Fidel Castro is responsible for:
- setting up then maintaining, since 1959, a political system that suppresses freedom and spurns human rights.
- extensive and systematic imprisonment of political opponents who were denied any legal means of defence and were subjected to physical and psychological torture.
- sinking a refugee ship on 13 July 1994, which caused the death of 42 people, 23 of whom were minors.
- inflicting capital punishment on approx. 15’000 people since taking office.
- transporting 149 captives in a hermetically sealed van on 20 April 1961, in which 9 people died during the 11-hour trip.
In 1978, there were alleged to have been 15-20’000 political prisoners in Cuba. Today the government admits to some 400-500. According to Amnesty International, there were between 980 and 2500 political prisoners in 1997. Since 1959 more than 500’000 people are said to have gone through so-called “camps” or “centres of repression’. | |     click for more... | | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. | |  |  | | nationality : | | | Cuba | | | date of birth : | | | 13.08.1926 | | | also known as : | | | Fidel Alejandro Castro Rúz | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Genocide
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Torture | | | profile last modified : | | | 10.03.2010 |
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